with Eugene Fraser
John Sergeant in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather. papers and sport
by EVELYN WAUGH (10)
medium only from 9.45 Collecting and Antique*
An opportunity to find out If the precious heirloom ought to be sent to the London sale-rooms - or drunk out of at teatime. John Bly , FRSA, is an expert on silver and English furniture - and being a dealer, other things besides. David Battle is an expert on ceramics and 19th- and 20th-century objets d'art - and being an auctioneer, other things besides. Ask them about your treasure, what it is, when it was made, how to preserve it. In the Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am
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7: Tony Hancock
Because he was the biggest star of his day, he thought that a hand had reached out of a cloud and pointed to him as being something unique in the human condition.
(BARRY TOOK)
Tony Bllbow looks back on the careers of people who were popular heroes.
Producer BRIAN COOK
NEM p 50: Sing to the Lord (BBC HB 19); Psalm 86: Acts 9, vv 1-19a (NEB); Son of God, eternal Saviour (BBC HB377)
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Time Out of Mind by CHARLES MURRAY
Read by Gordon Gardner
'He was a quiet man, Mr Pennywhistle , and not free with words. It was a long time before he could speak to Mrs Pennywhistle of what had happened, and even then he told only the facts of the matter, simplyandplainly.Factswere
Mr Pennywhistle 's business.'
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Mister and the Waggers' Line by CHRIS HAWES
' I sat there on that bench all afternoon till it was time to be going home. Time to be arriving home if I'd been at school. I was getting that feeling steadily growing inside me that there was no way out with you. There wasn't going to be. And I gave you a name. Like a Christening. Hello, Mister, I said.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
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(Rev rpt of Monday's broadcast at 10.30)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Brian Widlaka
(medium only from 2.0)
Introduced by Sylvia Horn
Rooms for the Rich: Jill Cochrane goes behind the scenes at the Dorchester Hotel...
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Knock, Knock, Who's There?: Brenda Kidman visits publicans Jack and Thelma Britten.
Doing the Season: Paul Barnes joins 'society' and meets the 'debs'.
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (4)
Story: Young Hedgehog Has a Big Drink by VERA RUSHBROOKE
medium only from 3.5
medium only
Live from the House of Commons, with David Holmes , the BBC's Political Editor.
medium only
A Question of Upbringing (7)
Presented by Brian WMIake
Signing On. David Rider considers the mystique of the signature tune.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
(Full details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
Christopher Ricks looks at 9: Nonsense Poems by Lear and Carroll. Reader HUGH DICKSON
Michael Oliver investigates the lives of two orchestras: the London Symphony Orchestra andtheScottishNational Orchestra, including some of the more unusual aspects of organisation that keep them on the road - A Brahms-size orchestra can get on a Trident Jet, but Mahler needs a Jumbo. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Invisible Enemy
MELVYN HARRIS tells the strange story of a German cruiser in the First World War whose crew were struck down by an enemy they could neither fight nor identify.
A Fearful Joy (12)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
